+For 1.33 Testing/Documentation:
+- Document to start higher priorty jobs before lower ones.
+- suppress "Do not forget to mount the drive!!!" if error
+- Document new records in Director. SDAddress SDDeviceName, SDPassword.
+ FDPassword, FDAddress, DBAddress, DBPort, DBPassword.
+- Document new Include/Exclude ...
+- Add test of exclusion, test multiple Include {} statements.
+- Add counter variable test.
+- Document ln -sf /usr/lib/libncurses.so /usr/lib/libtermcap.so
+ and install the esound-dev package for compiling Console on
+ SuSE.
+
+For 1.33
+- Implement a RunAfterFailedJob
+- Zap illegal characters in job name for mail files (e.g. /).
+- From Lars Köllers:
+ Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
+ tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
+ an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
+ necessary parameters.
+
+ By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empry/purged volume say
+ in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
+ space?
+- Implement a move Volume from one pool to another.
+- Either restrict the characters in a name, or fix the problem
+ emailing with names containing / (smtp command line breaks).
+- Eliminate ua_retention.c (retentioncmd) if possible.
+- Eliminate orphaned jobs: dbcheck, normal pruning, delete job command.
+ Hm. Well, there are the remaining orphaned job records:
+
+ | 105 | Llioness Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | D | 0 | 0 | f |
+ | 110 | Llioness Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | I | 0 | 0 | f |
+ | 115 | Llioness Save | 2003-09-10 02:22:03 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A |
+ | 128 | Catalog Save | 2003-09-11 03:53:32 | B | I | 0 | 0 | C |
+ | 131 | Catalog Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | I | 0 | 0 | f |
+
+ As you can see, three of the five are failures. I already deleted the
+ one restore and one other failure using the by-client option. Deciding
+ what is an orphaned job is a tricky problem though, I agree. All these
+ records have or had 0 files/ 0 bytes, except for the restore. With no
+ files, of course, I don't know of the job ever actually becomes
+ associated with a Volume.
+
+ (I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere -- what are the meanings of
+ all the possible JobStatus codes?)
+
+ Looking at my database, it appears to me as though all the "orphaned"
+ jobs fit into one of two categories:
+
+ 1) The Job record has a StartTime but no EndTime, and the job is not
+ currently running;
+ or
+ 2) The Job record has an EndTime, indicating that it completed, but
+ it has no associated JobMedia record.
+
+
+ This does suggest an approach. If failed jobs (or jobs that, for some
+ other reason, write no files) are associated with a volume via a
+ JobMedia record, then they should be purged when the associated volume
+ is purged. I see two ways to handle jobs that are NOT associated with a
+ specific volume:
+
+ 1) purge them automatically whenever any volume is manually purged;
+ or
+ 2) add an option to the purge command to manually purge all jobs with
+ no associated volume.
+
+ I think Restore jobs also fall into category 2 above .... so one might
+ want to make that "The Job record has an EndTime,, but no associated
+ JobMedia record, and is not a Restore job."
+- Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
+ which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
+- Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
+- make "btape /tmp" work.
+- Make sure a rescheduled job is properly reported by status.
+- Walk through the Pool records rather than the Job records
+ in dird.c to create/update pools.
+- Figure out a way to move Volumes from one pool to another.
+- What to do about "list files job=xxx".
+- Implement delete Job.
+- Document need to put LabelFormat in quotes.
+- Implement scan: for every slot it finds, zero the slot of
+ Volume other volume having that slot.
+- When job rescheduled, status gives is waiting for Client Rufus
+ to connect to Storage File. Dir needs to inform SD that job
+ is rescheduled.
+- Fix get_storage_from_media_type (ua_restore) to use command line
+ storage=
+- Enhance "update slots" to include a "scan" feature
+ scan 1; scan 1-5; scan 1,2,4 ... to update the catalog
+- Allow a slot or range of slots on the label barcodes command.
+- Don't print "Warning: Wrong Volume mounted ..." if mounting second volume.
+- Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
+- Enable trace output at runtime for Win32
+- Make sure that Volumes are recycled based on "Least recently used"
+ rather than lowest MediaId.
+- Available volumes for autochangers (see patrick@baanboard.com 3 Sep 03
+ and 4 Sep) scan slots.
+- Upgrade to cygwin 1.5
+- Get MySQL 3.23.58
+- Get and test MySQL 4.0
+- Do a complete audit of all pthreads_mutex, cond, ... to ensure that
+ any that are dynamically initialized are destroyed when no longer used.
+- Write a mini-readline with history and editing.
+- Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
+ file descriptor leak in Bacula.
+- Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
+- Turn on SIGHUP in dird.c and test.
+- Use system dependent calls to get more precise info on tape errors.
+- Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
+- Suppress read error on blank tape when doing a label.
+- Can we dynamically change FileSets?
+- If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
+ automatically generate the Volume name.
+- Take a careful look a the Basic recycling algorithm. When Bacula
+ chooses, the order should be:
+ - Look for Append
+ - Look for Recycle or Purged
+ - Prune volumes
+ - Look for purged
+ Instead of using lowest media Id, find the least recently used
+ volume.
+
+ When the tape is mounted and Bacula requests the status
+ - Do everything possible to use it.
+
+ Define a "available" status, which is the currently mounted
+ Volume and all volumes that are currently in the autochanger.
+
+- Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
+- Is a pool specification really needed for a restore? Yes, and
+ you may want to exclude archive Pools.
+- Look at libkse (man kse) for FreeBSD threading.
+- Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
+ up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
+- Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
+- Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
+ data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
+ time as the user walks through the tree).
+- Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
+- Orphaned Dir buffer at parse_conf.c:373 => store_dir
+- Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
+ to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
+- Implement multiple Consoles.
+- Add Console usr permissions.
+- Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
+- Fix restore to list errors if Invalid block found, and if # files
+ restored does not match # expected.
+- Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
+- Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
+- Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
+ be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
+ prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
+ run the job but don't save the files.
+- Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
+- Implement FileOptions (see end of this document)
+- Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
+ Windows.
+- Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
+- Implement job in VerifyToCatalog
+- Implement migrate
+- Implement a PostgreSQL driver.
+- Bacula needs to propagate SD errors.
+ > > cluster-dir: Start Backup JobId 252, Job=REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12
+ > > prod4-sd: REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12 Error: Write error on device
+ /dev/nst0. ERR=Input/output error.
+ > > prod4-sd: REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12 Error: Re-read of last block failed.
+ Last block=5162 Current block=5164.
+ > > prod4-sd: End of medium on Volume "REU007" Bytes=16,303,521,933
+
+- Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
+- Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
+ problem.
+- Add SuSE install doc to list.
+- Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
+- Make bextract release the drive properly between tapes
+ so that an autochanger can be made to work.
+- User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
+- Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
+- On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
+ a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
+ We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
+ full path name.
+- lstat() is not going to work on Win32 for testing date.
+- Something is not right in last block of fill command.
+- Implement a Recycle command
+- Add FileSet to command line arguments for restore.
+- Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
+ a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
+ can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
+- Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
+ verify if it is the correct client.
+- Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
+- Add JobLevel in FD status (but make sure it is defined).
+- Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
+- Restrict characters permitted in a Resource name, and don't permit
+ duplicate names.
+- Check Jmsg in bnet, may not work, must dup bsock.
+- Suppress Job Name in Jmsg for console
+- Create Pools that are referenced in a Run statement at startup if possible.
+- Use runbeforejob to unload, then reload a volume previously used,
+ then the next job run gets an error reading the drive.
+- Make bootstrap filename unique.
+- Test a second language e.g. french.
+- Start working on Base jobs.
+- Make "make binary-release" work from any directory.
+- Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
+- Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
+ stuff below.
+- Implement table driven single argc/argv scanner to pickup all arguments.
+ Much like xxx_conf.c scan table.
+ keyword, handler(store_routine), store_address, code, flags, default.
+- From Phil Stracchino:
+ It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
+ something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
+ would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
+ client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
+ client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
+ when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
+ all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
+ This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
+ hand without having to master the art of retention times.
+- Implement new serialize subroutines
+ send(socket, "string", &Vol, "uint32", &i, NULL)
+- Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
+- Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
+- Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
+ just before read_block_from_device();
+- When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
+ would then figure out what files have been deleted.
+- Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
+ explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
+ if there is an error.
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